Tag: "emotion" at medical news

More Than Just Anger

...ure to resist aggressive impulses'. When does an emotion like anger become a disorder? For many critics , this brand new anger syndrome seems like another way of shirking responsibility from one's bad behaviour, falling in trend with the inceasing 'medicalisation' of everyday problems. In America, it ...

Brain Matures Emotionally with Age

...motion. Professor Helen Fisher, an expert in human emotion at Rutgers University in New Jersey said that it h... deputy head of the department of neuroscience and emotion at King's College London said that regulation of negative emotions in older people was likely to be ...

Supporting children with stress key to improve stuttering

...oused and less able to control their attention and emotion during everyday stressful or challenging situations," Vanderbilt University psychologist Tedra Walden, a co-author of the research, said. "Stuttering, as it continues, can impact a child's academic, emotional, social and vocational potential and d...

Special Behavioral Therapies made Women more likely to Attempt Suicide

...sonality disorder have difficulty regulating their emotion and their lives so dialectical behavior therapy is designed to help clients build a life worth living,’ said Linehan ‘Not only do they attach to us, we attach to them.’ The study involved 101 women between the ages of 18 and 45 who met the criteria...

Adolescent Drug Users Turn Compulsive Addicts

... addiction later in their life due to the positive emotion that they derive by taking these drugs. Cannabis is considered to be the gateway drug which further leads a person to get exposed to other hard drugs. Adolescents become primed and then later crave the chemical stimulation of hard drugs. Previousl...

iSTART Brain Model Reveals the possible Cause of Autism

... arousal of the circuits in the brain that control emotion are set at an intermediate level. Either under-aro...action is abnormally low, but the intensity of the emotion is abnormally small,’ said Grossberg. ‘In contrast, if the emotional circuits are under-aroused, the...

Health Care Costs Unaffected by Rebate

...buy and what we do with the goods. You can play on emotion to get people to buy private health insurance but that doesn't guarantee that everyone will use it." ...

Fewer numbers of neurons in autistic boys, study

...ala, a region in the brain that is responsible for emotion and// memory. The research team compared the brains of 9 men and boys in the age bracket of 10 to 44 with that of 10 normal males. The comparative study checked out if the brain cells were smaller in size or if they were lesser in number. While the...

Researchers Find Fewer Neurons in the Amygdala of Males with Autism

...in the amygdala//, a part of the brain involved in emotion and memory. David Amaral, research director of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, and former graduate student Cynthia Mills Schumann counted and measured representative samples of neurons in the amygdala of nine postmortem brains of males who had aut...

A Protein In Brain Regulates Anxiety And The Consumption Of Alcohol

...the amygdala, an area of the brain associated with emotion and fear. The researchers found that when levels of BDNF in the central and medial areas of the amygdala were lowered, anxiety and alcohol consumption increased. Decreased levels of BDNF in the third area, called the basolateral amygdala, had no ef...

Anticipation Could Have An Intense Effect On Memory

...ly new body of work on the role of anticipation in emotion and clinical disorders, says senior author Jack Nitschke, a UW-Madison assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology. "Our study illustrates how the power of expectancy can extend to memory formation as well," says Nitschke, also an associate of...

Separation of Spinal Cord of Conjoined Twins Completed Successfully

...'s been a roller-coaster. You have a mix of every emotion possible – pretty much the worst feeling.” Benzschawel said, ‘We've been here since April. The hospital staff is almost like another family. We couldn't get through it without them.’ Over 65 people are working on the operation, including doctors,...

Successfully Separated Conjoined Twins In A Critical Yet Stable Condition

...t's been a roller coaster, you have a mix of every emotion possible pretty much the worst feeling.” Family members and friends also assembled in the room, to give their moral support to the parents and for helping them pass time by playing Monopoly. Shaw who was wearing a green T-shirt with the words ‘Feel...

Danger and insecurity in contemporary life

...the University of Kent. "And trust always involves emotion as well as reason." "The way that information about a particular risk is transmitted and interpreted by various audiences is also important in determining how people respond," Peter Taylor-Gooby explains. "Government should be certainly thinking ab...

Understanding ‘Pain’ in Alzheimer痵

...as in the second part, the pain is associated with emotion that manifests as a feeling of discomfort. It was believed that in patient’s suffering this disease, the emotional part had taken a beating, leading to suppression of the expression of pain. This finding was examined on 14 patients- the thumbnails...

Childhood abuse may hamper sufferers’ adult relationship

...the new person with facial expressions of positive emotion (presumably deriving from love for the parent). Among participants who had been abused, however, this was accompanied by negative reactions as well, such as expectations for rejection, mistrust, dislike, and emotional distancing. Notably, no such pat...

A New Research Explores Connection Between Emotionality And Alcoholism

...icate a dysregulation in brain systems that govern emotion and motivation. "It is important to see how measures of personality and emotionality relate to alcohol dependence," said Elizabeth P. Hayden, assistant professor in clinical psychology at the University of Western Ontario and corresponding author ...

A Study Finds VENs Devastated in FTD

...o frontal brain regions associated with cognition, emotion and social behavior. Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), a common neurodegenerative condition, is characterized by early breakdown in social and emotional awareness and is accompanied by atrophy and dysfunction in the brain areas where VENs are located. A...

A New Therapy for CFS

...rally thought I was passing away. I could hear the emotion in her voice as she tried to wake me, but I couldn't wake up to console her. That was just maddening." Now in his seventh month of treatment, Manson is able to go backpacking with his children with no ill after-effects. Prior to starting the treatm...

Connections Program Offers Hope to Children With Asperger's Disorder

...y in which the children practice social skills and emotion recognition, or work on expanding their interests....ed with that emotion, and then talk about how that emotion can make a person feel physically. To reinforce this skill, students watch the popular children’s mo...

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